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Ellipsis - "I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you . . .. I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!" Act 1-Scene 2 said by Abigail

Dialect - " I'm not sayin' she's touched the Devil, now, but I'd admire to know what books she reads and why she hides them. She'll not answer me, y' see." Act 1-Scene 5 said by Giles

Colloquialism - "Aye, mum." Act 1-Scene 2 said by Mercy  "Mercey, you go home to Ruth, d'y'hear?" Act 1-Scene 2 said by Mrs. Putnam

Caesura - "No, he'll be comin' up. Listen, now; if they be questioning us, tell them we danced-I told him as much already." Act 1-Scene 2 said by Abigail

Hendecasyllabics - "I think I'll go, then. I am too old for this." Act 1-Scene 4 said by Rebecca

Interior Monologue - "Why, then I must find it and join it." Act 1-Scene 4 said by Proctor

Denouement - "Aye, a dress. And I thought I saw - someone naked running through the trees!" Act 1-Scene 1 said by Parris

Foregrounding - "Betty, wake up. Betty! Betty! Act 1-Scene 5 said by Abigail

Aphorism - " You are undone! Let you take hold here. Wiat for no one to charge you - declare it yourself. You have discovered witchcraft - " Act 1-Scene 2 said by Putnam

Antiphrasis - "Her soul, her soul seems flown away. She sleeps and yet she walks . . ." Act 1-Scene 4 said by Mrs. Putnam
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